Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Government-backed Islamophobia group linked to foundation that slammed counter-extremism programme

 Supporters of a highly-controversial plan to set “appropriate limits to free speech” about Muslims have been given up to £2.6million by the Government to police and monitor “Islamophobia”.

The British Muslim Trust has been awarded a £1million-a-year contract by ministers to “combat hate against Muslims”. 

The trust — which only launched its website today — replaces the group Tell Mama, which had done the job for the last 13 years but withdrew after what it called a “smear campaign” against it by Islamists and the far-right.
The new group is co-run by the Aziz Foundation, which has said that the Government’s counter-extremism Prevent programme “actively harms Muslims”.


The Aziz Foundation also funded and supported a report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Muslims calling for a highly restrictive legal definition of “Islamophobia”.

The Aziz-funded APPG report said an Islamophobia definition should set “appropriate limits to free speech” when talking about Muslims. It said that “free speech and a supposed right to criticise Islam results in nothing more than another subtle form of anti-Muslim racism”.

It specifically listed “the issue of 'grooming gangs',” which it placed in inverted commas, as a “real-life example” of Islamophobia and racism.

FULL ARTICLE AT: https://www.gbnews.com/news/islamophobia-group-aziz-foundation-counter-extremism-programme-prevent 

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